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WARNING: RENT BEFORE BUY I REPEAT RENT BEFOE BUY!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first rented the game I was happy. I thought Simpsons great material, how wrong I was. To first start off the graphics are extremely poor. They looked like Sega Gen. graphics. The vision is very fuzzy (or it could be my TV). Next the game play is poor too, the way you move on the screen, you don't have good attacks in the game, and the buttons. The characters are another issue. The voices are okay at best. When they do their "taunt" the sayings are really dumb. The weapons each character has is so dumb. It's nothing like the Simpons on TV! There is more but for now I have gave you a sample, I'll make you the judge of the rest. You might like but what I have to say is RENT THE GAME FIRST!!!!!

Simpson's greatness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The long awaited game is here....and it rocks! The challenges of becoming champion of Springfield may be too difficult for some, but the overall plot is great. Unlike most wrestling games (Smackdown2), you have to sit through boring and long plots before you can even fight. With the three levels of becoming the champ, it makes it all much harder to conquer it. Although I would love to see all the characters of the series in this game, I still recommend it. This is a great title to get carpal tunnel to as it is addicting.

Seriously bad stuff...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a steaming pile of [...] that stepping in may cost you [...] (luckily it only cost me [...]).

The Simpsons and Wrestling are two of the most popular shows on TV today and two of the few shows that i make sure to catch every episode of...every week. Now some marketing genius knows that the PSX is in dire need of a Simpsons title, but they know none of the Simpsons games made under the Acclaim license were really any good except for the immortal Simpsons Arcade game.

They figure "Hey, Simpsons, and Pro Wrestling, the kids will love it!"

The problem is, any kid in their right mind will not love this. As far as Pro Wrestling goes this is not it at all. Steaming burps, massive weapons coming out of nowhere, jumping 8 feet across a ring.

The graphics are downright ugly. The characters look all wavy and messed up. They tried to make a 3D simpsons and wound up with a very 2D-ish cartoony game that wouldn't stand on 16 bit standards.

The gameplay is not there, not there at all, button mashing on top of button mashing will not get anything to work in this game, if you rent this without a manual you'll be doubly confused.

The sound is not as bad but not good at all, small voice sampling and really really unfunny clips, it's the actual TV show voices but they sound like they've been clipped from episodes and put together for the game.

There is no replay value, because it stinks, it's pitiful.

I rented this game and i want my [...] back on top of money for all the distress and punitive damages that this game has put upon me.

May god have mercy on the souls of the people at Activision who made this stinker (This is the company that made Tony Hawk, Spiderman, and Vigilante 8?).

The thing that really irks me is that some of the best games ever have been cartoony takes on sports. Like Punchout and Ready 2 Rumble for boxing fans and Mario Kart for racing fans, so on and so forth.

However if you want a wrestling title for your playstation, i recommend Smackdown 2, THQ did a great job with everything except the graphics on it, and the arenas look good, it smacks of fun and replay value.

If you want a good simpsons title, email the folks at Activision and tell them to make the Simpsons Racing game for GCN and PS2 not stink.

Simpsons Fans Not Wrestling Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has everything for fans of the Simpsons, from great voice work from the original cast, to Hillarious sayings from the playable carecters and the crowd, this game has it all if you are a Simpsons fan, How ever if you are more in to wrestling this is not for you, the only things having to do with Wrestling is Pining and the ropes. Most of the attacks are very good and have something to do with the fighter in the TV shoew ( I.E Lisa's Sax, Barts skateboard not to mention The Flaming Moe) All and all this is a great game to play with your friends, my advice is unless you are a Huge Simpsons fan Rent this game first, but if you are like me Buy it and play it with your friends.

I love the simpsons

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big simpsons fan but not the best game player. My boyfriend bought this for me Christmas just because I like the simpsons and I needed a new playstation game. Ok, so it's not anything like "final fantasy" or "tomb raider", (the only other playstation games I've ever played), but it is quick and easy and a lot of fun if you just want to waste a few hours on a saturday. It's really geared toward simpson fans so if you're not a fan, don't waste your money.

Simpons Wrestling--BIG disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The long-awaited "Simpsons Wrestling" (Activision) was released this week and in the words of Bart Simpson (episode 5F07, "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace") ... "It's ..."

As a fan of both The Simpsons and wrestling, this was truly the perfect combo. However, after almost a year of waiting for this game, it is a major disappointment to say the least.

First and honestly ... it's like playing a game from your old Nintendo system. For PSX, the graphics are very poor--with, while during combat, characters that occasionally transparently overlap each other. Didn't we see this type of glitches in old Commodore games? As for the characters themselves, the graphics are choppy and uneven with Groundskeeper Willy looking the worst of the lot.

The game-play is also quite bad. Controlling your given resident of Springfield is a hard task and making contact with your opponent can sometimes be worse--occasionally, opponents will simply move into a dead space in the ring and start swinging at air. Again, didn't we see this back in the 80s?

This should actually be called "Simpsons Fighting" because it is anything but wrestling. Actually, the name "Wrestling" in the title was probably just a way to cash-in on wrestling's current popularity.

Barney swings beer mugs, Krusty wields a giant hammer, Marge has a frying pan while Kent Brockman, almost unheard over the sound effects and music, does occasional

commentary. But overall, the moves are pretty basic and boring. The game is also void of a referee; "wrestlers" themselves make the count when they go for a pin attempt.

And being The Simpsons, most fans would expect a great deal of humor--nope. While the taunts are, at times, remotely humorous, the game simply lacks humor that you would generally expect with any Simpsons product. The funniest aspect of the game is when you face Marge--she instantly releases Maggie who runs and clings to your leg, slowing you down. Yes ... this is the funniest aspect of the game.

Bottom line ... Simpsons and wrestling fans alike will hate this game. To paraphrase The Comic Book Guy: "Worst Game Ever!"

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My son is a big simson fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My son has played it an he says it was a great game with okay graphics, but he doesn't care about graphics. The game is filled charactors like Willy, Homer, Aboo.

This Game Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you love the simpsons, and I know you do, then you'll love this Game. If you love watching big dumb tub's of lard like Homer getting the stuffing beaten out of them, and i know you do, then you'll also love this game. It rocls! plain and simple.

Great Concept Gone Horribly Wrong

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am bias, I must confess, I have been a simpsons fan since I was four years old so I have grown up watching this family and as much as I truly love this show. The conversion of the simpsons to a wrestling game went horribly wrong somewhere along the developement lines. I rented this game and I did enjoy the wisecracks and taunts made by the wrestlers in the game and believe me they were worth getting a kick out of. But the problem is you start out with few characters and the graphics are not that great. In most fighting games you now play, you have to know how to pull of certain moves and combos to achieve victory but all I can describe about the control for this game is pure button smashing. that is the only way to win, I tried using particular moves but gave up and resorted to pushing misc. buttons after about fifteen minutes. I believe that this would have been a much better conversion onto the Playstation 2 if anything. That would have impressed all those simpsons fans out there. But, sadly this game disappoints those true fans to the show. The only reason I gave this a 2 star rating sadly was out of my sympathy for the simpsons. This truly was a Great Concept Gone Horribly Wrong.

The Simpsons!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Who doesn't love the Simpsons? I certainly do!! I watch all their episodes (new and old). And what's not to love about them? They're silly, funny, and witty!! I can't say i'm a big Simpsons fan but i am a fan none the less so when i saw they had a wrestling game for playstation, i said i had to get this game!!

Well, like some of the Simpsons episodes, this game was disappointing. it wasn't all that interesting and the wrestling moves, i thought, were limited. and it's a very easy game to beat but then again, some of you might like that. In any case, it was still fun for an unchanllenging game. It was only fun for about 10 minutes.

I wouldn't recommend this game at all unless you like simple fighting games. And if you are a Simpsons fan, you'll get it anyway regardless whether the game isn't all that.

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